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Lecture Notes (in PowerPoint format)

History 11 - Political and Social History of the United States I

Introduction / A Model for Colonial America / Geographic and Intellectual Expansion in the North American Colonies / Imperial Rivalries / Establishing Colonial Empires / Conquest of the Western Hemisphere / Colonial Settlement: Expansion and Diversity / African and European Cultures / Chapter 5: Imperial Reconstruction / Chapter 6: Colonial Resistance / Chapter 7: Revolution! / Chapter 8a: Shaping a Constitutional Government & Foreign Challenges / Chapter 8b: Ideological Partisanship / Chapter 9: Industrialization & Democratization / Chapters 10,11: Second Party System & an Emerging National Culture / Chapter 12: Slavery in the Old South / Chapter 13: Westward Expansion / Chapter 14: Compromise, then War / Chapter 15: Fighting the Civil War / Chapter 16: Reconstruction

History 12 - Political and Social History of the United States II

Introduction / Reconstructing the Nation / Settling the West / Rise of Industrial America / Politics in the Industrial Age / The Progressive Era / Turn of the Century / Urban Growth / World War I / The 1920s / The Great Depression / Life in the Depression / A Coming War / World War II / The Cold War Abroad and at Home / America in the 1950s and 1960s / Civil Rights in America / Camelot Meets the Cold War / Political Activism in the 1960s / The Great Society and Vietnam / World Politics and the Presidential Crisis / American Society in the 1970s and 1980s / American Society in the 1980s and 1990s

History 52 - The Role of Women in the History of the United States

Syllabus / What is History, and What is Women's History? / Women of the 'New World' / Women and 18th Century America / Republican Motherhood / Pedestal, Loom, and Auction Block / Moving Toward Women's Rights / A Maternal Commonwealth in the Gilded Age / Progressive Women / The New Woman and Reform / Arguments for the Vote / Getting the Vote / American Women in the Post Suffrage Era / Women and the Depression / Wartime, 1941-1945 / Women in the Post-War Era / Changing Roles in Conservative Times / 1960s: The Personal Becomes Political / The Emergence of the Women's Liberation Movement / Feminist Repercussions / Feminism Reconfigured

History 86 - Introduction to World Civilization I

Introduction / Early Societies, 3500-500 BCE / 2. Southwest Asia / 3. Early Africa / 4. South Asia / 5. Central and Eastern Asia / 6. Americas & Oceania / 8. Classical China / 8a. Classical China (cont.) / 9. Classical India / 10. Greeks / 11. The Romans / 12. The Silk Road / 13. Post-Classical Societies, 500-1000 CE / 14. Islam / 15. East Asia / 16. Indian Ocean Basin / 17. Christian Europe / 18. Interregional Contact and Mongol Expansion / 19. African Interaction & Exchange / African Interaction & Exchange (2) / 20. Western Europe, High Middle Ages / 21. Oceania and the Americas / 22. Cross-Cultural Interaction

History 87 - Introduction to World Civilization II

Introduction / Transoceanic Encounters / The Transformation of Europe: Expansion Abroad and Change at Home / New Worlds: European Exploration in the Pacific Ocean, 1519-1780 / The Americas: Political, Economic, and Cultural Transformations / Africa and the Atlantic World / Tradition and Change: Early Modern China and Japan / Islamic Empires / The Russian Empire in Europe and Asia / Age of Revolution, Industry, and Empire, 1750-1914 / Revolutions and National States / Growing Nationalist Identities / Industrial Society / Destabilization and Social Transformation / New Imperialism, 1850-1914 / The Great War / The Inter-War Years / Depression and World War II / The Bipolar World / Challenges to the Bipolar World / Globalization: A World Without Borders